After the rebirth, the cold prince clings to me every day

Chapter 390
Shen Mingjiao stood up, brushed off her skirt, "I can't help it, you have too many flaws!"

"How come...you..."

Shen Mingjiao glanced at her: "You want to say, I don't know the Lord Jianing well, how could I see through you so quickly!"

She smiled: "I think girls can also read some words, you should know that it's hard to paint a tiger's skin!

I really don't know the princess of Jianing County, but I know that her mother is a noble eldest princess, and her father was born in a famous family. Not everyone can imitate a woman brought up in such a family. "

Hatred flashed across the woman's lowered eyes, she shrugged her shoulders and said sadly:
"No, I did follow the order and planned to stun you, Wangfei, but I'm really Jianing! I...I also have my own reasons, they forced me..."

Shen Mingjiao seemed to be a little interested, and said coolly: "Oh. Then you should have heard my reputation in the capital, right! You have calculated me so much, have you ever thought about the end?"

The woman gestured behind her without any trace, lowered her head and said in a trembling voice: "I...I know a lot of things. The bandits who captured me have other identities. They are..."

"The remnants of the previous dynasty!"

The woman suddenly raised her head: "How do you know?"

"Is it hard to guess? Anyone who has been to that bandit's den can see it. The three-entry mansion is the architectural style favored by the former royal family,"

She had never seen that house before, Feng Lisheng mentioned all these to her on the way back that day.

Although nothing can be seen from the outside of the house, clues can still be seen from the hollow patterns on the roof beams.

She looked at the woman with a pale face, "Your girl must have told you the news! You are not the Lord of Jianing, but the maid of the Lord of Jianing,
Your master is probably already dead. In order to survive, you offered to pretend to be the Lord of Jianing County and use it as a bait to lure me into the bait. "

The woman's face turned completely pale: "I..."

Shen Mingjiao had lost her patience, and glanced somewhere behind the woman:

"Come out! Since you have done this and want to capture me, how can there be no support staff nearby?"

The voice fell.There seemed to be a figure flashing past in the depths of the dark alley, obviously after hearing Shen Mingjiao's words, he had the heart to retreat,
However, all of them underestimated Shen Mingjiao and Fu Guang who silently followed behind Shen Mingjiao.

I saw Fuguang lightly tapped his feet, and he reached the depths of the dark alley in an instant, followed by the faint sound of fists colliding with the wind.

Not long after, four burly men were thrown out.

Seeing that the four were easily captured, the woman collapsed to the ground in despair.

Shen Mingjiao stared at these people, and frowned in confusion. It stands to reason that if someone was caught by accident, he should be taken back to the inn and handed over to Feng Lisheng, and then interrogated and deployed together.
But in this way, the other party didn't see these people returning, so they knew that this plan had failed, and they would definitely hide again.

In this way, even if they interrogate something at that time, the time will be delayed after going back and forth, and the other party may have disappeared long ago.

After trying to understand this, she didn't struggle anymore, walked into the deep alley, let Fuguang guard, and directly used hypnosis on these people.

"Who are you?"

"...Bandits...not...the former and the later!"

"You stayed well in the mountains, why did you go out?"

"...Three months ago, the head of the family brought back a woman. The woman's identity was not simple. Mr. Qin was afraid of bringing disaster to the brothers, so he persuaded the head of the family to take us out of the village..."

"Who is Mr. Qin?"

"Mr. Qin is the military adviser in Xianyun Village, and he is a very smart person."

Shen Mingjiao gave a "tsk" sound: "Xianyun Village! This name is very special. The people who came to choose this name wanted the people in the village to be idle clouds and wild cranes from now on. It's a pity that you failed to live up to this name."

She asked the question they are most concerned about now: "Where did you go after you left Qishan?"

"...Yang's blacksmith shop."

Shen Mingjiao was stunned for a moment, after all according to Feng Lisheng's speculation, there were at least tens of thousands of people living in that bandit den, while a blacksmith's shop needed at most dozens of people, the difference between the two was too great.

After asking for a long time, I figured out that the so-called remnants of the previous dynasty are actually some distant relatives of the last emperor of the previous dynasty.
Seeing the destruction of their family and country, these people were afraid of being implicated in the future or other reasons, so they came to Qishan with only their remaining belongings, and they have been hiding their names ever since.

And it has been more than a hundred years since the fall of the previous dynasty. These people are far away from disputes and live a comfortable life.The population also multiplied from the original thousand people from generation to generation.

And the imperial court at that time may not have known about the existence of these people, it was just that they were too lazy to care about it.

Although the founding emperor of Great Xia won the world on horseback, he acted benevolently after he ascended the throne, and he was not a direct descendant of the last emperor. To kill all these people, one must first be prepared to be condemned by the world.

As the years passed, some people yearned for the outside world, so they quietly left the mountains and settled down in the Qin area.After more than a hundred years, the population has grown stronger and stronger, and these people have taken root in Qin.

However, there are still some people who keep in mind the ancestral teachings and stay in the mountains, and they make a living by farming.

A few decades ago, there was a major famine in Qin land, and the border was unstable at that time, so many people who couldn't survive fell into bandits.

It was also from then on that Xianyun Village really became a bandit.But it is also like what the people of Xianyang County said.

Although they became bandits, they never killed anyone. They just collected tolls from wealthy businessmen and gentry. Until seven years ago, the old master passed away unexpectedly, and the new master who succeeded him was a real villain.He started a business of murder and robbery.

Originally, according to the normal development, the head of the family killed someone, and the government led troops to the mountain to suppress the bandits, so the matter should have ended like this.But there was a change in the middle.

"...The head of the family has killed so many people. I heard that the government will send people over, and the brothers are very flustered. At first, the head of the family was also planning to escape.

Later, when he came back from a trip, he seemed to be a different person. Instead of panicking, he even said that we were going to have a great fortune.

On the second night, officers and soldiers went up the mountain to suppress the bandits, and the leader took us to hide in advance. I thought this was what the leader said, but someone quietly went to watch the next day, but found that all the officers and soldiers who went up the mountain were dead. A fire was set on the spot.The traces are wiped clean,"

"...Although the brothers don't know exactly what happened, they vaguely know that this is a crime more serious than murder and robbery.

Later, the head of the village gathered all the people in the village together and said, We were originally descendants of the royal family of the previous dynasty, with noble blood flowing on our bodies, and now we have the opportunity to restore the country.If you want to gain a better future, you should stay and do business in the stockade.

But the head of the family killed so many officers and soldiers of the court, and the brothers would die if they went out. He blocked all our escape routes. "

When the other party said this sentence.Although his eyes were dull, his tone was tinged with sadness and helplessness.

Shen Mingjiao took a breath, probably connecting all the things together, and then asked: "That Mr. Qin also appeared at that time."

"Yes, not long after that, people were sent up the mountain one after another, and a martial arts field was built on the mountain, and those people had a special person in charge of practicing every day.
And we bandits only need to practice occasionally.As usual, he continued to roam around the Qin land or further afield, burning, killing, and looting according to the orders of the head of the family.Brothers can get [-]% of the money they snatched back, and the rest of the money is used to support those who were sent. "

Shen Mingjiao immediately understood the meaning of his words, the crown prince or the empress of Gaochang buried a lot of "fat sheep" in hidden piles everywhere,
Then pass the information about these "fat sheep" to the master through that Mr. Qin, and the master will send his bandits to slaughter these "fat sheep", and the money obtained will be used to support the prince's private soldiers.

For a moment, Shen Mingjiao didn't know what to say, not to mention the other things, if the crown prince is really put on the throne, then Daxia will not be far from the country's subjugation.

The road to the emperor has always been bloody. Almost every generation of emperors can stand out and become the emperor, and their hands will not be clean. They may use all kinds of means to get the top position, but they will never wipe out their conscience without a bottom line.

"So, for the sake of safety, three months ago, you bandits scattered and hid in Xianyang County or Qin, and those private soldiers who trained hid elsewhere?"

"Yes, over the years, many members of the Xiao family have settled in various places in Qin. Some of us went to seek refuge, and some hid elsewhere."

And even if those people knew that the other party was a bandit, they didn't dare to report to the officials because of their clan consciousness - because they were afraid of being imprisoned.

Moreover, several high-ranking county guards in Qin land are all princes, even if they really go to the government to sue, there will be no result.

"Do you know where those private soldiers are hidden?"

"...I don't know. Only Mr. Qin knows about this."

Shen Mingjiao is not surprised, this is the biggest secret in Xianyun Village, so it is naturally impossible for everyone to know.

"Then why did you set up such a game today, or how did you recognize me?"

She was asking this question about the woman pretending to be the head of Jianing County. Obviously, those men were just following orders.

The woman said blankly:

"...After the girl committed suicide on a hunger strike, in order to survive, I took the initiative to seduce the head of the family and told the diamond jewelry that the girl was wearing. Precious, take it out and sell it, and someone who is interested will check it out,

My plan failed, and I was punished by the big boss.

It's a coincidence that two days ago, someone came to a pawn shop on South Street with an earring studded with blue diamonds. The owner and I happened to live next door. I saw it by accident and recognized the earring at a glance. It was the one the girl lost,
So I reported the matter to Mr. Qin, and Mr. Qin came up with this idea, and asked someone to pretend to be a merchant, and sold the set of blue diamond heads and the other set in the cage to the largest jewelry shop in Xianyang County .Then spread it in secret. "

In this way, Shen Mingjiao was purely a mistake.As for why the woman recognized her identity, it was probably because of her superficiality.

Everyone in the upper circles in the capital knows that Princess Su is often accompanied by a veiled foreign girl.

Seeing that the questioning was almost over, Shen Mingjiao thought for a while, now that Feng Lisheng is not here, it is impossible for her to rush over and arrest everyone immediately. In order not to startle the enemy for the time being, she erased and tampered with the memories of several people, and waited for them to wake up. In the end, I will only remember that she ran away halfway.

After finishing all this, Shen Mingjiao went out of the dark alley, at this moment the guard in charge of patrol came over,
At the same time, Feng Wu, who was Feng Lisheng and disguised as Xianyang County Governor, also came over.

(End of this chapter)